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san francisco, we talk about it being a transit first city, but it does not mean a lot if transit is not very well thought out in places away from downtown. my district is where we need to create better options. all the way down to randall street, there is no accessible boarding areas for the church. there is a woman that lives in a wheelchair on santa rosa. she has to go across to glen park to get out transit. >> those new stations, those are the ones that we are going to have to depend on. >> along balboa park station, near geneva, i have been pushing hard to get ramps for pedestrians. right now, it is dangerous to cross the street. i want to insure the department of parking and traffic is painting lines on alemany street. beyond that, we need to figure out how to calm the traffic. a lot of cars go speeding through. sidewalks are not convenient for people. >> i am the supervisor for district 11, the debt -- the best district in san francisco. this year, we get to show how great district 11 really is. >> we are in our fifth year of major budget deficits. it is inevitable that we wil
san francisco, we talk about it being a transit first city, but it does not mean a lot if transit is not very well thought out in places away from downtown. my district is where we need to create better options. all the way down to randall street, there is no accessible boarding areas for the church. there is a woman that lives in a wheelchair on santa rosa. she has to go across to glen park to get out transit. >> those new stations, those are the ones that we are going to have to depend...
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, and when we call ourselves a city as a transit first city there is no better example than that than what is reflected in the plans for the central subway. this project is a vital enhancement of our public transportation system. it's going to significantly improve the movement of tens of thousands of franciscans and if you were here this past weekend when people were predicting it would be jam san francisco instead of san francisco you knew that folks were educated because of the great leadership at our mta, our county transportation, all of our transit systems and were at the highest level of educating the visitors and others to use public transportation. it will work for all of us and as we build the housing units we identified in hunter's point and treasure island and welcome more people to our great city and we are growing as a result. we are going to have the greatest subway system that can connect to our bart, to our caltrans, to up and down our muni lines. this central subway will be a great success. it will connect to some of the most densely populated and rapidly developing
, and when we call ourselves a city as a transit first city there is no better example than that than what is reflected in the plans for the central subway. this project is a vital enhancement of our public transportation system. it's going to significantly improve the movement of tens of thousands of franciscans and if you were here this past weekend when people were predicting it would be jam san francisco instead of san francisco you knew that folks were educated because of the great...
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the berth of the first publicly owned transit system in the city, the san francisco municipal railway. hey, guys. weekly buzz. have no fear because i'm here to break down the top places to be this week. this tuesday come to the french film and wide conversation class to help non-french speakers to discover french cinema. san francisco is offering weekly class. the class will take place in the theatre with refreshments and popcorn for a $5 donation at the door. the carnival maybe more up your alley. the annual fundraiser for mckinley elementary school. watch dogs compete for best tricks at the biggest dog event in san francisco. don't miss this from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.. this sunday april 14th, the block party is on in full effect when this neighborhood celebrates in street parties so pedestrians and roller skaters can take over. valencia street is a place for people to party. c'mon in and join us. that's the weekend fun. for more information click (music) >> herb theatre,open rehearsal. listen to the rehearsal. i think it is fun for them, they see our work process, our discussions, the de
the berth of the first publicly owned transit system in the city, the san francisco municipal railway. hey, guys. weekly buzz. have no fear because i'm here to break down the top places to be this week. this tuesday come to the french film and wide conversation class to help non-french speakers to discover french cinema. san francisco is offering weekly class. the class will take place in the theatre with refreshments and popcorn for a $5 donation at the door. the carnival maybe more up your...
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the berth of the first publicly owned transit system in the city, the san francisco city, the san francisco municipal railway. welcome home, man.
the berth of the first publicly owned transit system in the city, the san francisco city, the san francisco municipal railway. welcome home, man.
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first transit policy. do we think that we have the opportunity to renegotiate that? >> a point that is raised by this board every year. the cal trans, director always seems to be absent when this question is asked. your predecessor offered to provide them with muni fast passes but i don't believe that it was taken up of. >> it was a condition of the transfer of the land, and at the time what we were getting was not worth the argument. what will need to happen is that we need state legislation to move them back to oakland to their office in oakland on west grand that is what we would need to do. >> there is not an opportunity to mode identify the agreement. >> and i don't think that it is about the money. >> the principal that we are using the funds to pay for the employee parking. and >> and i understand that. you have to go back to the ctc it is not worth opening up that document. >> where is matthew and ross when you need them? >> i do have one other question, i guess that this is what we will be looking
first transit policy. do we think that we have the opportunity to renegotiate that? >> a point that is raised by this board every year. the cal trans, director always seems to be absent when this question is asked. your predecessor offered to provide them with muni fast passes but i don't believe that it was taken up of. >> it was a condition of the transfer of the land, and at the time what we were getting was not worth the argument. what will need to happen is that we need state...
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the berth of the first publicly owned transit system in the city, the san francisco municipal railway. >>> while i get myself settled, maybe a show of hands. how many already been to see the exhibition? a number of you. first of all let me say good afternoon and first and foremost i would like to thank my colleagues in the education department in the fine arts museum of san francisco for an allowing me to speak today. valuable artwork -- rene, director of public programs and last on this list but certainly not least gregory stock who is a programming wizard. i'm
the berth of the first publicly owned transit system in the city, the san francisco municipal railway. >>> while i get myself settled, maybe a show of hands. how many already been to see the exhibition? a number of you. first of all let me say good afternoon and first and foremost i would like to thank my colleagues in the education department in the fine arts museum of san francisco for an allowing me to speak today. valuable artwork -- rene, director of public programs and last on...
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the berth of the first publicly owned transit system in the city, the san francisco municipal railway. >> hello, everybody and welcome, good afternoon. thank you so much for coming to join us for this celebration today. i'm renell, brooks moon from the morning show, and of course, the voice of your 2012 world champions, san francisco giants. >> in fact, the last time that i was at city hall was halloween 2012, right after the parade and the victory celebration and so it is great to be back and it is almost baseball season and who is ready to demand our title? i cannot wait, i cannot begin to tell you how honored i am to serve as your host for this special event, i want to welcome you officially to the san francisco mayor's office of neighborhood services black history month closing ceremony. what a way to wrap things up, we gather here to honor a living legend, ground breaking politician, activist and freedom fighter and fashion icon, the one and the only the honorable willie l. brown junior. [ applause ] growing in the
the berth of the first publicly owned transit system in the city, the san francisco municipal railway. >> hello, everybody and welcome, good afternoon. thank you so much for coming to join us for this celebration today. i'm renell, brooks moon from the morning show, and of course, the voice of your 2012 world champions, san francisco giants. >> in fact, the last time that i was at city hall was halloween 2012, right after the parade and the victory celebration and so it is great to...
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your goal 1 is safety and goal 2 is transit. those represent those two, safety and transit first. thank you. >> jessica and perry. >> hi. my name is jessica, i'm a mother of 2 and cyclist in the city. i live in the mission with my family and my son goes to school at new traditions elementary north of the panhandle. i'm biking my 2 small children through the corridor everyday. the new bike lane on one of those streets have been a great improvement but we are waiting and waiting for the other street to materialize. i'm too nervous to actually bike on the street without the bike lane so i go on the sidewalk which also isn't really safe for me or the pedestrians on that sidewalk. i try to go carefully but we are waiting for you guys to take the steps necessary to make that bike lane a reality and, you know, they are getting older and they need the safety that you can provide on those lanes. so i hope that you can find a way to expedited the full implementation of those bike lanes and also consider all the families that are biking in the city and make our safety and priority and not to
your goal 1 is safety and goal 2 is transit. those represent those two, safety and transit first. thank you. >> jessica and perry. >> hi. my name is jessica, i'm a mother of 2 and cyclist in the city. i live in the mission with my family and my son goes to school at new traditions elementary north of the panhandle. i'm biking my 2 small children through the corridor everyday. the new bike lane on one of those streets have been a great improvement but we are waiting and waiting for...
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to the entrance transbay transit authority, for the first time i met mr. heinz, i can going to hang out with them more because i have heard a lot of stories between you that will help me run this city better. i will say that when this transit tower is complete, it will have the impact of transforming our city skyline with the tallest structure west of the mississippi and chicago. i'm about to leave for china tomorrow, and i get to go to china and tell them we've got the tallest building west of the mississippi, what about you? they are probably going to tell me they have tall buildings there as well but we at least have bragging rights. the state of the art, sustainable features, a plan, 1.4 million square foot office tower, developed, owned and operated by heinz. they are reoccurring the renounced architect. this is going to bring 142 good construction jobs in san francisco. i want to thank everybody that has been involved in this. as you can see the former transbay terminal site is exciting for me. when i was by willie brown, former mayor, i remember cle
to the entrance transbay transit authority, for the first time i met mr. heinz, i can going to hang out with them more because i have heard a lot of stories between you that will help me run this city better. i will say that when this transit tower is complete, it will have the impact of transforming our city skyline with the tallest structure west of the mississippi and chicago. i'm about to leave for china tomorrow, and i get to go to china and tell them we've got the tallest building west of...
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to the entrance transbay transit authority, for the first time i met mr. heinz, i can going to hang out with them more because i have heard a lot of stories between you that will help me run this city better. i will say that when this transit tower is complete, it will have the impact of transforming our city skyline with the tallest structure west of the
to the entrance transbay transit authority, for the first time i met mr. heinz, i can going to hang out with them more because i have heard a lot of stories between you that will help me run this city better. i will say that when this transit tower is complete, it will have the impact of transforming our city skyline with the tallest structure west of the
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>> that is a transit first policy. >> steve you've been around a long time. wasn't there a prop approved in the 80s to build parking structures in certain parts of the city, and you have the one that was built in north beach, where the police station is, which i believe is the last one? >> vallejo. >> chair adams: yeah, the vallejo one. i did some research on this, a prop passed, they only built one. >> the last one the built was the employee parking lot at general hospital. the only parking lot now built are for city employees; the court building over here, they have a parking lot in the building, that is it sort of thing that still gets built with parking. anything else, , if you're going to build a large building you cannot put a parking lot in there for their employees. no more parking. it just to be that the money you put into the meter, went for the meter maids, in whatever was left over was for offstreet parking. that was eliminated under prop a i want to say, i could be wrong. >> i would just -- two observations. one, i totally empathize with steve's
>> that is a transit first policy. >> steve you've been around a long time. wasn't there a prop approved in the 80s to build parking structures in certain parts of the city, and you have the one that was built in north beach, where the police station is, which i believe is the last one? >> vallejo. >> chair adams: yeah, the vallejo one. i did some research on this, a prop passed, they only built one. >> the last one the built was the employee parking lot at general...
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and you know, for a transit first city come on. we need to fix all of our vehicles and whatever is necessary and make it a real transit first stop. >> thank you very much. if there are no other members of the public to comment, we will close public comment. >> and we will go on to the next item. >> item number five, award an 18-month contract to par son's brinckerhoff to an amount not-to-exceed $300,000 for the if he can cal sult ant services for the treasure island mobility management and study and authorize the executive director to negotiate contract payment in terms and non-material contracts terms and conditions. >> comments? >> public comment. >> public comment is open and... >> good morning, again, commissioners, my name is jackie sacks, this item is brought up at the citizen's advisory committee last month and having served on the geary, on the citizen's advisory committee for the drive subcommittee, i am very familiar with this firm and i move that this be passed and i said the same thing at the finance committee last week
and you know, for a transit first city come on. we need to fix all of our vehicles and whatever is necessary and make it a real transit first stop. >> thank you very much. if there are no other members of the public to comment, we will close public comment. >> and we will go on to the next item. >> item number five, award an 18-month contract to par son's brinckerhoff to an amount not-to-exceed $300,000 for the if he can cal sult ant services for the treasure island mobility...
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we call ourselves a transit first city. we need to put our money where our mouth is. we haven't done that in a while. we need to start doing t. i think that this is a small step in the right direction, but it is not nearly enough, and i hope this is just the beginning. ~ with all that said, the capital planning committee i think has done a tremendous job in moving the plan forward and i will be supporting it. >> colleagues, can we take this same house same call? same house same call, this resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> madam clerk, can you please call item 21? >> item 21 is a resolution adopting the city's five-year communication and technology plan for fiscal year 2013-2014 through fiscal year 2017-18 pursuant to administrative code section 22a.6. >> president chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair. again, i want to thank the members of the budget committee for the consideration and support of the five-year information and communication technology plan which i had several years ago in legislation asked that our city's i-t staff put together so that we can have a framework
we call ourselves a transit first city. we need to put our money where our mouth is. we haven't done that in a while. we need to start doing t. i think that this is a small step in the right direction, but it is not nearly enough, and i hope this is just the beginning. ~ with all that said, the capital planning committee i think has done a tremendous job in moving the plan forward and i will be supporting it. >> colleagues, can we take this same house same call? same house same call, this...
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now, this is a transit first city supposedly. now, with this it has become developers first. now, how about people first? muni is way behind. you yourself said deferred maintenance is outrageous, it needs to be done. well, we need to set up priorities. we need all functions, all departments to have -- to be functional. you can't just have development and no transit. that's ridiculous. we need to slow down the building process, let muni catch up. let them become functional and to cut off debate like this for the other alternative legislation, deplorable. i am very disappointed, supervisors. please do not take any action today. >> thank you. mr. fakuda, i'm glad we can at least agree on muni. we can always find common ground. [laughter] >> okay, next speaker. >>> my name is michael russem, and i want to tell you that the organizations over 35 neighborhood environmental and labor organizations are totally opposed to the first approval trigger. it's for appeal deadlines. it's unacceptable. in addition, all ceqa appeals must be heard or directed by state law by the full 11 members
now, this is a transit first city supposedly. now, with this it has become developers first. now, how about people first? muni is way behind. you yourself said deferred maintenance is outrageous, it needs to be done. well, we need to set up priorities. we need all functions, all departments to have -- to be functional. you can't just have development and no transit. that's ridiculous. we need to slow down the building process, let muni catch up. let them become functional and to cut off debate...
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so, given our city's priority on transit first and our organization's priority on helping the city, live up to transit first, we support this and hope you move it forward. thanks. >> thank you, ms. lam. >>> thank you, xiiixv. -- supervisors. my name is julie [speaker not understood]. our planning committee has voted unanimously to oppose the legislation as it now stands. that does not mean we oppose changes to the ceqa code in order to achieve a kind of transparency that supervisor wiener is after and to really make a level playing field for the general public. i just want to call your attention to the fact that people have pro sessionals and planning manners and ceqa matters are able to very quickly able to get review projects and sort through what's relevant and what's not relevant to them. ~ this is not true for the general public. ~ professionals i've been involved in planning matters for a long time, but i'm not a professional and i still have a hard time making heads or tails of things. ordinary people in the neighborhoods, when the projects -- when they're faced with something, th
so, given our city's priority on transit first and our organization's priority on helping the city, live up to transit first, we support this and hope you move it forward. thanks. >> thank you, ms. lam. >>> thank you, xiiixv. -- supervisors. my name is julie [speaker not understood]. our planning committee has voted unanimously to oppose the legislation as it now stands. that does not mean we oppose changes to the ceqa code in order to achieve a kind of transparency that...
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this legislation will strengthen the city's transit first policy by increasing the sensible to alternative modes of transportation. the bike vendor park ride has been a trusted proven company operate intion city parks for the past couple of years. they're existing in very popular locations or downtown, in the marina and in golden gate park. providing customers the unique hop on, hop off ability to pick up a bike at one location and drop it off at another. i am excited to be a co-sponsor to these new bike locations at the east entrance of golden gate park located at alvers lake and at a small portion of the ocean beach parking lot which will connect the existing locations. the added locations will make it even more attractive for visitors and residents to travel by bike in san francisco. they will provide a valuable public amenity in our parks and they will activate the space as they serve. district 5's all bert lake in particular is a site which has been troubled with ongoing safety issues for years. ~ i have been working with the recreation and parks department, the san francisco police d
this legislation will strengthen the city's transit first policy by increasing the sensible to alternative modes of transportation. the bike vendor park ride has been a trusted proven company operate intion city parks for the past couple of years. they're existing in very popular locations or downtown, in the marina and in golden gate park. providing customers the unique hop on, hop off ability to pick up a bike at one location and drop it off at another. i am excited to be a co-sponsor to...
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the berth of the first publicly owned transit system in the city, the san francisco municipal railway. >>> good afternoon and thank you for coming. i'm delighted to announce that our first effort is unleashed upon the world. [ applause ] . it's only been two-and-a-half years since the moment of conception of this idea. it's an amazing tribute to our community. it reached three levels of impossibility, of getting a permit and designing it and putting it on this structure and the impossibility of getting it funded. it really is a tribute to so many and a lot of faces that i'm looking at this room tonight. it comes down to as always people. i'm going through a few moments here to give a real thanks to people who made this night and the next two years possible. i'm going to list a couple of company names, but i want to think of them as members of our community that made this project possible. that included, bloomberg, guchie, it includes the partners, magazine, california home and design, magazine, aluminum illuminary sponsors and the folks tonight. and, you know that first level of impos
the berth of the first publicly owned transit system in the city, the san francisco municipal railway. >>> good afternoon and thank you for coming. i'm delighted to announce that our first effort is unleashed upon the world. [ applause ] . it's only been two-and-a-half years since the moment of conception of this idea. it's an amazing tribute to our community. it reached three levels of impossibility, of getting a permit and designing it and putting it on this structure and the...